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Earthquakes
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Earthquake
Sudden slips on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slips, or by volcanic or magmatic activity, or…
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Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Precursors to a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in the Virgin Islands: Spatial clustering of small earthquakes, anomalous focal mechanisms, and earthquake doublets
A. Frankel
1982
Corpus ID: 130740767
abstract Waveforms of small earthquakes that preceded a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in the Virgin Islands were studied using digital…
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1981
1981
Broadband time domain modeling of earthquakes from Friuli, Italy
J. Cipar
1981
Corpus ID: 131369399
Short-period (SP) and long-period (LP) seismograms written by the main shock and two principal aftershocks of the 1976 Friuli…
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Comparison of earthquake locations determined with data from a network of stations and small tripartite arrays on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
P. Ward
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S. Gregersen
1973
Corpus ID: 73670053
The hypocenters of 43 earthquakes on Kilauea Volcano were analyzed in detail in order to examine the accuracy of hypocenters…
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Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
THE SOURCE PARAMETERS OF THE SAN FERNANDO EARTHQUAKE INFERRED FROM TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES
M. Wass
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T. Hanks
1972
Corpus ID: 13547381
The accuracy of teleseismic estimates of moment, fault area, dislocation and stress drop was tested for the case of a thrust…
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Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Spatial distribution of deep and shallow earthquakes of small magnitudes in the Fiji-Tonga region
L. Sykes
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B. Isacks
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J. Oliver
1969
Corpus ID: 130456483
abstract Data from five new seismograph stations in the Fiji-Tonga region of the southwest Pacific and from teleseismic stations…
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Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Earthquake locations and seismic wave propagation in the upper 250 km of the Tonga island arc
W. Mitronovas
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B. Isacks
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L. Seeber
1969
Corpus ID: 131276057
This paper reports results of a series of short-term seismic observations made on nearly all the major island groups of the Tonga…
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Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
The S-wave project for focal mechanism studies, earthquakes of 1963
W. Stauder
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G. Bollinger
1964
Corpus ID: 210048982
P - and S -wave data for thirty-five earthquakes selected from among the larger earthquakes of 1963 have been investigated. Focal…
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Highly Cited
1951
Highly Cited
1951
Direction of faulting in certain earthquakes of the North Pacific
J. Hodgson
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W. Milne
1951
Corpus ID: 131415155
Abstract Byerly has shown that when stations are plotted in extended position the initial motion will be compressional in two…
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1939
1939
Near earthquakes in Central California
P. Byerly
1939
Corpus ID: 130069677
Summary Least-squares adjustments of observations of waves of the P groups at central and southern California stations are used…
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Highly Cited
1936
Highly Cited
1936
Materials for the study of deep-focus earthquakes (SECOND PAPER)
B. Gutenberg
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C. Richter
1936
Corpus ID: 61021979
The present paper is supplementary to a previous publication under the same title, for which a list of errata is here given. The…
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